Asheville Insight Meditation

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What Does Awareness Mean to You?

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Sangha Members Share

At one of our group meditation sessions, sangha members shared their reflections on the experience of bare awareness. Here’s a list of their contributions.

Awareness is…

  • seeing through the eyes of a newborn.
  • not getting caught up in content, but staying in spacious context.
  • not getting caught up in details, but expanding to see the big picture.
  • not identifying with what is seen.
  • seeing through the eyes of infinity.
  • seeing beyond grief to the inherent gifts in loss and the beauty in this moment.
  • driving down a country road.
  • that which cannot be described.
  • that which connects us all.
  • the space between molecules.
  • the sky beyond the clouds.
  • the ocean beneath the waves.
  • the sound of silence.
  • the air which we breathe.
  • the fire which sustains us.
  • the river which flows through us.
  • the ground on which we stand.

What is your experience of awareness?

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